Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
E. O. WILSONOf course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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